Re:There’s a simple alternative to the current web
by twoodfin on Saturday August 23, 2014 @03:52PM
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I'd love it if browsers natively supported URI's derived from cryptographic hashes of content by looking them up in a distributed store a la BitTorrent. Imagine if Chrome supported such a thing, for example. Perfectly reliable cache-ability (or archive-ability), P2P hosting, ... All the good stuff for any web content that its creator wants to so expose, albeit at the price of immutability.
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Re:There’s a simple alternative to the current web
by ottonomy on Saturday August 23, 2014 @08:33PM
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Especially under the current copyright regime, finding some solution that preserves the intent of the creator to publish in a fixed format, would be a great component of a distributed publishing system. I don't think this proposal has as good a fair use defense as the Internet Archive wayback machine does.
In the world today, we often think of publishing online as providing access to something under our control. I think a technology that aims to solve these problems should embody a different spirit, one closer to "making public". The word "mine" doesn't need to imply ownership in the sense of exclusive control. I mean, "My children" is at least as meaningful a relationship as "my property". Some kind of copyright license ability built into a distributed document publishing system would be nice.